Chapter 1119: Ruins of Sap City
When the tires made a "puff" sound and then the whole car stabilized, Yang Pingtie knew that he had roughly arrived at the place.
The ruins of Sap City.
Strictly speaking, the area of Sap City is larger than that of a regular shelter city. The shelter city usually has two to five super buildings, plus slums like moss on the ground, and occasionally there is a little road planning, but not much.
This kind of city itself is not livable enough, not to mention that the current cyborgs rely on solar energy to survive, and there is a rigid requirement for per capita sunshine area.
Therefore, the size of a city is often limited, mostly between one and two hundred square kilometers, and the difference is often how deep the shelters build their super buildings.
Sap City is a typical old-time city with clear urban planning and construction. Although it lacks thousands of meters of super buildings, the average is far more than the current shelter city. It also covers a larger area.
And now, the Six Dragons Cult and its group have driven onto the remains of the original intercity highway in Sap City.
Yang Pingtie connected his vision to the on-board camera, took a look, and found that he had not strayed from the city.
There is vegetation around Sap City, and this may be one of the few vegetation created by non-protectors.
It is said that in tropical areas, there are still a small number of small organisms that have completed the transformation in the No. 1 biosphere extinction event. The hot external temperature gave them a little chance. But soon they fell into new problems. The viruses created by those cultists are randomly infected, and the mutations produced are also random, which leads to the fact that a group of species often becomes several species with weak reproductive isolation on the spot. Organisms that cannot complete asexual reproduction or autosexual reproduction have become extinct again.
In addition, there were originally dozens of laboratories belonging to Superman Enterprises in Sap City, which were used to study benchmark species, especially economic crops among agricultural crops. There are also some parks here. It is said that in 2060, some people are still worried that benchmark crops will invade the earth's biosphere and burn the parks of Superman Enterprises.
But it turns out that this is indeed a groundless worry.
Even if the original biosphere of the earth was wiped out and died, making room for the later ones, the plants from these laboratories could not successfully expand.
Until now, those wild economic crops can only live and die in this city.
The road is full of cracks. Clusters of purple or black plants are scattered on both sides of the road, forming sparse vegetation. Green is rarely seen.
When Yang Pingtie was listening to the church talk about faith, he heard it mentioned above that a long time ago, chlorophyll was not the mainstream among the protozoa on earth. At that time, most of the organisms that drew energy from the sun were ++++purple. The extinction event changed the mainstream of producers, and photosynthesis represented by green became the absolute mainstream of this planet.
That was more than two billion years ago.
When seeing these plants, Yang Pingtie felt an absurd sense of fate. The biosphere built on the basis of green plants is the world of human beings. And humans themselves successfully destroyed it, and then the mainstream of photosynthesis... although it did not change back, the color is closer to the past?
These plants don't mean much to the current benchmark people - they are either the product of random mutations or the result of cash crops going wild. Standard benchmark people can't digest these species, and they may be poisonous to them.
In addition, planting plants requires water and sunlight. The shelterers rarely consider things like "water sources" when building cities, and civilians need to keep the sunlight for themselves.
The long dry season also limits the expansion of these plants. For two hundred years, these plants haven't even grown all over the city.
The driving protector Kasepong was very excited: "Boss, this road is really easy to drive."
"First time here?"
"This is really the first time in a place like ruins." Kasepong was very excited, "I have never seen such lush plants."
Kasepong is still in the observation period. He didn't even know that the organization he joined was called "Six Dragons Cult". In his eyes, he was the subordinate of the flag owner. This is also one of the Six Dragons Cult's social recruitment processes.
The other is for famous warriors, who can go directly to the headquarters to slowly cultivate their faith.
At present, Kasepong's position is "cannon fodder".
"Cannon fodder" is still very excited. He said: "Boss, before we do anything, do you want to visit the famous black market here?"
"Yeah, it's up to you." Yang Pingtie didn't care too much. This trip was originally a dispensable task. The flag owner asked him to bring two more subordinates who were in the probation period to observe them.
Many times, "having an assistant" means "having more tactics to choose from". Even if there is a big gap in martial arts level between the assistant and the main hand, the assistant can be kept away from them when fighting a tough battle.
Many knights are active in this way of old leading new. Using this group image to operate on the edge of the knight group is not easy to arouse suspicion. After all, there are countless knights who can't make it and retreat to the second line due to injuries.
The Six Dragons Cult has been conducting small-scale activities in this area.
Kasepong also knew that he was here to kill a few insignificant poor guys. He didn't feel nervous at all, and even had the mind to look around.
Yang Pingtie soon noticed something. The vehicle drove into a new route. This should have entered the urban area of Old Sap City. There used to be an extremely complex three-dimensional transportation system here, almost a maze. Now, most of the viaducts have broken due to disrepair, leaving only a large number of columns and a small number of intermittent bridge decks, casting a complex maze-like shadow on the ground.
The yellow-brown mycelium clings to the lower half of the bridge piers, and then dries repeatedly, forming crack-like lines.
When driving into the shadow area, Yang Pingtie stood up, then quietly opened the exit on the roof, leaned out half of his body, and stretched like a natural person.
For the standard person, this is undoubtedly a sign of "not yet getting rid of natural instincts." "Stretching" and other stretching movements are meaningless to the mechanical body.
Yang Pingtie even touched the back of his head.
A small missile shot straight out from the raised elbow.
The attacker who jumped down from the air was in despair in shock.
He had just jumped down from the air, and there was no place to get leverage. He had no equipment such as thrusters on his body, and even no heavy weapons that could be thrown out in an emergency to change his body shape. The only hot weapon was on his back and he couldn't pull it out in a hurry.
When Yang Pingtie returned to the car, the attacker just exploded in the air.
"Awesome." The protectors were amazed, "Boss, it's amazing. The car camera can see the ambushers? The accuracy..."
"Almost. Didn't I go out to take a look again?" Yang Pingtie's tone remained unchanged.
Just now, he observed through the car camera that there were three or four ambushers on the bridge pier column in front. And those ambushers did not take out hot weapons. Therefore, Yang Pingtie deliberately showed his head and made a flaw.
After killing a sneak attacker, Yang Pingtie observed through the camera that the other ambushers had quietly retreated.
Kasepong was a little regretful: "Why did you all stop? I heard that the bandits are very reckless."
"That's not the bandits. There shouldn't be any large bandits around here."
"Why not?" One person retorted, "My whole family was killed."
But there was no sadness in his tone.
"Maybe more than ten years ago." Yang Pingtie held his weapon and retreated comfortably into the corner. "A lot of things have happened in the past ten years. First, they were swept by a guy suspected of being a martial god, and then we came again. Then the African martial arts leader thought that morale could be used, so the chivalrous power here was relatively strong."
These protectors didn't know that they served the Six Dragons Cult, but they knew that the "flag master" was tracking things related to the martial god. They were naturally excited about this topic.
"The guy suspected of being a martial god" is a "rumor" thing around here. But this is not groundless. According to what Yang Pingtie knew, a radical activity of the Six Dragons Cult more than ten years ago created several "personalities similar to the God of War", and these "quasi-Gods of War" also had the ability to live up to their mother, and as expected, they went out of control and left records of their manifestations in various places.
The nearby Six Dragons Cult group also began to expand its team during this period. They control the direction of rumors here, while searching for hidden "quasi-Gods of War" or looking for their relics.
But that was many years ago.
Yang Pingtie even felt that the flag owner was planning to gradually remove some peripheral personnel, or send the newly developed members to the Mars headquarters to receive religious education.
Yang Pingtie only felt fortunate for this. He was already a formal member and would not be easily abandoned by the church.
After passing the outermost edge of the city, the Six Dragons Cult entered a jungle composed of broken walls and ruins.
There are still some buildings from the old era standing here. It is said that at the end of the 21st century, humans' requirements for concrete used in construction are "safe support for 200 years without maintenance." It's not that it's impossible to make building materials that can last longer, but the builders of the city have determined that, except for a few landmark buildings of a memorial nature, there is no need for more permanent building materials. Most buildings in the city will be demolished and rebuilt as the city develops, and there is no need for buildings that last for 200 years.
And now, most buildings are barely within the "safe period".
The vehicle drove straight in. Since Yang Pingtie showed off his skills in the suburbs of the city, there were no new blind characters to cause trouble along the way.
The three people from the Six Dragons Cult soon arrived at their first destination, the Monument Square on the west side of the city.